The Kid Who HACKED Mountain Biking

This is the King Kong Trail in Utah. Locals call  this place the death zone. One mistake, one wrong   tap of the brake, and you're plunging right off  the cliff. The world's top extreme athletes train   here. Red Bull Rampage riders. The guy whose POV  you're watching is Remy Metay, one of the wildest,   most seasoned mountain bikers out there. But  notice one detail. He's not leading the line.   He's pushing with everything he's got. just to  keep up with whoever's in front. And the person   out front setting the pace in this madness is  barely 10 years old. Can't believe it. His name is   Weston Luckkins, known online as West Sense. And  we're not just talking about some talented kid who   throws down pretty jumps at the local park. This  is a kid who shattered the boundaries of extreme   sports so hard that worldclass engineers had to  reinvent their technology just to keep him from   getting killed. But how does a 60 lb kid end up on  a cliffside in Utah with pros chasing him down? To   make sense of it, we've got to look back at the  very beginning. And honestly, this story starts   somewhere with no mountains at all. Florida. If  you want to become a world-class mountain biker,   Florida is probably the last place you'd ever  want to be born. But Wes's progression didn't   just come down to mountains. It came down to one  very specific decision made by his dad. Shawn   Luckin spent 15 years on the police force before  retiring and opening a bike shop in 2019. He got   his kids Wes and his brother Camden onto bikes. At  first, it looked like a totally normal hobby. But   Shawn quickly noticed something. The kids didn't  just want to cruise around. They wanted to take   flight. The real turning point came when Wes and  his brother Camden started spending more and more   time on two wheels. The family backed them all  the way, and their dad Shawn became a huge part   of their journey. That's how a simple childhood  hobby slowly started turning into something that   completely took over their family life. Just  a couple of years later around 2021 2022,   the boy's progression was moving so fast that they  started blowing up online. The family launched a   YouTube channel called Trials Behind Bars. Their  home was swapped for an RV. When three kids are   riding at that level, invitations to prestigious  bike parks start rolling in. From the trails of   Bentonville all the way to Whistler in Canada,  the family naturally ended up spending more time   on the road than at home. Their camper became  a mobile incubator for elite level sports. In   a single year, they'd spend barely a month  back home with the rest of the time on the   road hunting down new trails and bike parks  all across America and beyond. But mind you,   this wasn't some crazy stage parent project where  kids were forced to train through tears. It was   pure natural drive, and the results of that drive  soon became impossible to ignore. When Pink Bike   journalist Mike Kasmr took a lap with 10-year-old  Wes at the famous Whistler Park in 2025,   he could barely find the words. This wasn't just  some brave little kid hucking off trail jumps. Wes   was pulling back flips, Superman's, bar spins.  But even more impressive, he was flying through   rock gardens and root sections with the kind of  technique you only see in veterans who've been   riding for decades. How is it even possible  to reach that level at 10 or 11 years old?   The answer lies in technology. Wes belongs to an  entirely new generation of mountain bikers who no   longer have to learn new tricks by slamming into  hard dirt and snapping bones. Wes's family set up   a massive airbag right in their backyard. That  changes the game completely. He could practice   back flips and other tricks hundreds of times in  a completely safe environment. He could dial in   his rotation down to the millimeter and only once  a trick became pure muscle memory would he take   it to actual dirt. Online people constantly post,  "This kid has no fear receptors." Wes himself says   the exact opposite. When he rolls up to a massive  new jump, he is terrified. He doesn't know the   perfect speed. He doesn't know how the suspension  will react. Wes's superpower isn't a lack of fear.   His superpower is the ability to control that  fear. And that brings us to the summer of 2025 and   one of Wes's wildest moments. On Vancouver Island,  freeide legend Mark Matthews built his mega line,   a massive freeide trail where one of the main  features is a mega drop. This isn't your average   drop. Mark himself said this feature has spooked  plenty of worldclass riders. Yeah, not gonna do   it. Up until spring 2025, only Mark, his crew, and  the trail builder had ever hit this massive drop.   At first, even Wes was secondguing it. He wanted  someone to tow him in and show him the speed.   But Mark wasn't around at the time. Wes had almost  talked himself into turning back. Then he stopped,   turned around, and decided to give it a shot. He  rolled up to the drop once, checked his speed,   pushed back up to the top, and told himself,  "I got it." Then he sent it, rode it clean,   and as if that wasn't enough, he threw a trick off  the big drop. Mark later described that session   as one of the most memorable days on his mega  line. 10-year-old Wes was throwing tricks off   the mega drop and stomping the entire line. This  wasn't just a kid who happened to be good on a   bike anymore. This was the moment it became  clear that Wes's progression was operating   on a whole different level. That's when the  mountain bike industry ran into a very bizarre,   unprecedented problem. Wes was getting too  good for the current market. Physically,   Wes was still a kid, but his airtime, speed, and  the sheer forces acting on the bike were on par   with adult pros. Standard kids bikes just couldn't  handle that kind of abuse. The geometry wasn't   built for extreme free ride, and the suspension  wasn't tuned for someone that light. Wes didn't   just outgrow his bike. He outgrew the entire bike  industry. In 2026, engineer and racer Neco Malali   and his brand Frameworks set out to fix this  exact problem. They didn't just scale down an   adult bike. They engineered a frame from scratch,  tailorade for Wes's anatomy and his riding style.   running a 26-in front wheel and a 24-in rear. It  was an experiment that showed just how seriously   this kid had to be taken. With the new bike,  his progression went through the roof. Reese   Wallace's invitational, Camp Zinc events, New  Zealand's Dream Track, Wes's name was popping   up everywhere. It seemed like this superhero had  no limits at all until the laws of physics decided   to speak up. In April 2026 at the Masters of  Dirt event in Austria, Wes attempts a double   backflip on a mini BMX. The rotation looks solid,  but on the landing, his foot catches. The result,   a broken leg. On Wes's social media, the post was  super blunt. Tried a double backflip. Foot caught,   broke my leg. And that's the most critical part  of this story because watching Wes's videos,   it's so easy to lose touch with reality. It's easy  to believe he's invincible, but under that helmet,   beneath all those sponsor logos, he's still  just an 11-year-old boy. A kid who feels pain,   who has to grind through exhausting rehab, and  whose bones break just like anyone else's? So, why   come back after an injury like that? What drives a  kid to get back on the bike after seeing the dark   side of the sport? It's not just raw talent. It's  the whole ecosystem. It's parents who back their   kids' dreams. It's engineers who believe in him  enough to pioneer custom tech. It's an environment   where the entire family rides. Wes Luckkins isn't  just another solid rider. He's a living experiment   showing what the next generation of mountain  biking is going to look like. A generation   armed with tools that old school pros could only  dream of. When asked what he wants for his future,   Wes keeps it simple. I want to be the best in  the world. Will he get there? Nobody knows.   Maybe he'll dominate Red Bull Rampage. Maybe he'll  become a downhill world champion. Or maybe one day   he'll just decide he's had enough. But keep that  image in your head. Out in Utah, a seasoned pro   on the gnarliest trail in the world. And right  in front of him, an 11-year-old whose journey   is only just getting started. If this is how  he rides at age 11, just try to imagine what   we're going to see when he turns 20. Thanks for  hanging out with me in this video, guys. Don't   forget to hit that like button, drop a comment,  and I'll see you next time. Chowo chow. Bye-bye. Heat. Hey, Heat.